MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
Lev Demidov Series
This series unfolds in the oppressive atmosphere of Stalin's Soviet Union, a society where a façade of perfection masks a brutal reality. It follows a secret police agent who begins to question the official narrative when confronted with a murder that the powerful seek to conceal. As his own family becomes entangled in a dangerous game, he must turn against the system he once served in a desperate fight for truth and survival.
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Soviet Union, 1956. The two young girls that Leo Demidov and his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his involvement in the murder of their parents. They are not alone. Now that the truth is out, Leo, Raisa and their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge against Leo.
Agent 6
- 560 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is thrown into a foreign conflict and is forced to question and confront everything he ever thought he knew about his country, his family, and himself.